Bilateral monopoly exists when
A) a single buyer confronts a single seller.
B) there are two monopolistic buyers trying to buy resources.
C) two labor unions are trying to represent the same group of workers.
D) a firm is both a monopoly in its output market and a monopsonist in its input market.
A
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A marginally attached worker is
A) a person who is not happy with his or her job. B) someone who works part-time more than 25 hours per week but wants full-time work. C) someone who does not have a job but is available and willing to work and has made specific but unsuccessful efforts to find a job during the past 4 weeks. D) someone who does not have a job but is available and willing to work but has not made specific efforts to find a job during the past 4 weeks. E) another name for an unemployed worker.
Suppose your expenses for this term are as follows: tuition: $5,000, room and board: $3,000, books and other educational supplies: $500
Further, during the term, you can only work part-time and earn $4,000 instead of your full-time salary of $10,000. What is the opportunity cost of going to college this term, assuming that your room and board expenses would be the same even if you did not go to college? A) $5,500 B) $8,500 C) $11,500 D) $14,500
Which of the following will not happen as a consequence of a monopolistically competitive firm suffering economic losses in the short run?
A) The firm will exit the industry if it continues to suffer economic losses. B) In the long run the firm will be able to charge a price that is greater than its average total cost. C) The firm's demand curve will shift to the right if it stays in business in the long run. D) The firm will break even if its stays in business in the long run.
In the above figure, Graph D with units of capital on the vertical axis and units of labor on the horizontal axis implies that
A) the marginal product of labor is increasing as more labor is employed. B) the marginal product of labor is decreasing as more labor is employed. C) the capital and labor are perfect substitutes. D) capital and labor have to be employed in fixed proportions.